My last Ubuntu install got destroyed by some package update and I was unable to fix it after hours and hours of futsing within it (I think it was related to graphics drivers, but I can't say 100%). This made me put it aside again since I just don't have time to deal with it and really just wanted something simple and reliable on my laptop. It's annoying because, aside from some games, I can already pretty much do anything I need to do on Linux just fine, but I won't risk issues like that taking down my whole setup.
Looks like something to do with Windows, so probably incorrect reporting of Windows 11 for a couple months or something.
I think it’s interesting that macOS is getting so popular. I’m guessing people got excited about the M1/M2 Macs and that’s starting to add up to interesting numbers.
Yup, that’s what I’m guessing. Now that there’s a second gen, people are also probably willing to take a risk on it. People hear that it’s faster than Intel chips, and they’re seeing that Apple is continuing to develop it, so they’re likely interested in trying it out.
I think it’ll have a pretty hard cap though because macOS isn’t very compatible for gaming, but I guess we’ll see if double digit market share is enough to interest the gaming industry to target it.
Yea. My impression though is that they’ve made their first move toward supporting games in their latest announcements. Some tooling for converting the code base to work with the M-chips and even running a chip emulator shim if you want despite the performance drop. Saw some video of someone playing a game at ok frame rates with it, so they could be serious about finally getting gaming happening to some extent.
I’m interested to see if Apple continues to work on game support, or if they just leave it as is. The current support is a start, but Apple has historically not cared about games, and that perception will take a lot of effort to reverse.
Oh it’s going to be bad. Really bad. Microsoft said over a billion people were using Windows 10 & 11, but the vast majority of those were on machines that already ran Windows 7/8.1 just fine (and may have been upgraded forcefully).
They tried once to limit hardware compatibility as Intel was switching over to 10th gen by giving people a cut-off point where new versions of Windows 10 would not work on hardware older than Intel 8th gen, but it was so poorly received that they walked it back (and did it with Windows 11 instead).
An actual EOL is going to be very tough to pull off because everyone expects their computers to last more than three years now.
XP released in 2001, only stopped getting support in 2014, and got an emergency security patch as recently as 2019. Expecting computers to last more than 3 years isn’t new.
I think most people who are already using windows will just stay on 10 for as long as possible rather than switching. I had a friend still using windows 7 by the time 11 rolled around. But once 10 hits EOL maybe the momentum will convince more of those to switch to a Linux distro
We’ve been in a post-truth era now for a number of years. There’s nothing that can be done. China has over a billion people. If they want propaganda bots to saturate the internet, they got it. Just keep promoting internet safety, critical media thinking skills, and real historical facts.
Funny how we’ve regressed back to a state where you can only believe things you have seen with your own eyes. (And things in books, papers and old-school websites.)
Have people verified the claims? none of the screenshots in the original post work for me. so just wondering if anyones actually double checked the claims or if we’re just accepting it as true because it fits what we think about “tankies”?
I have experienced it myself. I was also blocked from “memes” for mentioning a couple of “nono for commie” things, and my comments where removed by a mod.
I’ve directly asked one of the devs. If you look at their GitHub you can see a collection of essays one of the devs have written. It’s pretty openly displayed actually.
sorry but I don’t care to use stolen images from exploited people to satisfy myself I have a romantic partner to help in that regard.
the extreme commodification of the flesh that sex workers experience in the united states is a testament to the disgusting ideology you espouse while AES seeks to educate and lift up those exploited by sexpats & coomers
For all the newcomers that aren’t aware, I just stumbled upon this insane drama. Apparently, reddit.com has a subeddit called jailbait. Spez was a mod before it was banned by a bunch of pro-wokism bots who vigorously defend the sexworkers, and now is the top admin and is also the CEO. Pretty terrible stuff!
Guess why they made an alternative to Reddit… they were banned on it because of their views.
It’s kind of hard for me; I use and like Lemmy, but I can’t / don’t want to comment issues on their GitHub or do a pull request because helping them is just… iffy.
Ok, I’m no longer gonna argue in this thread. It’s filled with either keyboard warriors who haven’t turned their gaze away from the monitor in years, enraged fools or actually malicious provocateurs. I believe I’ve made my points. Peace! ✌️
My understanding is that they migrated most of their political stuff to lemmygrad.ml, and lemmy.ml is a mostly a general instance with some pro-china tendencies. I have zero concerns for developer political ideologies on open source licensed projects with good licenses as long as they stay professional.
Nothing is stopping you from defederating from lemmy.ml on your own instance and/or creating a fork and doing nothing but rebranding it with proper attribution if it really bothers you that much (or use an alternate tool like kbin), but you should realize almost every software you use had at least someone with political ideologies you would disagree with make contributions somewhere in the stack.
It’s important to note that Lemmy.ml is defederated from lemmygrad. So while there may be some of the same people involved, the instance as a whole is run correctly.
I can’t really tell the truth behind all this drama, because there seems to be a pretty dedicated group of people trying to slander lemmy.ml, but I’ve never seen anything unreasonable out of them.
At this point, I honestly think it’s a hit-squad paid by Reddit to discredit Lemmy.
While I haven’t ascended to fully cursive coding, I do actually enjoy Fantasque Sans for this very reason.
It manages to kind of connect the letters in some ways that my eyes can better see single words as “tokens”. After using it for a while, going back to a regular monospaced font looks like a speadsheet of unconnected letters.
How did you even come to that opinion unless you’re actively living in China? Actually even that doesn’t make sense, if you lived in China you would quite literally be blocked from sites like this, and you would get a police visit if you tried.
That’s not what happens though, insert the nobody cares speech from Andor here and the closest thing they have to making VPNs illegal actually means that you can’t make unsanctioned private cables, satellites etc to access the internet
That’s not what happens though, insert the nobody cares speech from Andor here and the closest thing they have to making VPNs illegal actually means that you can’t make unsanctioned private cables, satellites etc to access the internet
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